--- title: "4 Person Spoken Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Person Spoken quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Person Spoken sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/cleanth-brooks-53657_happiness_is-it-possible-to-make-a-sharp-distincti_934153.jpg" --- > [“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cleanth-brooks/is-it-possible-to-make-a-sharp-distinction-between-the-content-and/) [Cleanth Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cleanth-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/cleanth-brooks-53657_happiness_is-it-possible-to-make-a-sharp-distincti_934153.jpg) > [“Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. Except. One month…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tahereh-mafi/friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-experienced-not-as-a-child-and-2/) [Tahereh Mafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tahereh-mafi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35f/tahereh-mafi-229_children_friendship-is-not-a-thing-i-have-ever-ex_1040899.jpg) > [If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/if-anyone-should-tell-you-that-a-particular-person-has-spoken/) [Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a9/epictetus-413_bother_if-anyone-should-tell-you-that-a-particu_2015165.jpg) > [When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cleanth-brooks/when-we-try-to-describe-one-person-to-another-what-do-we-say-not/) [Cleanth Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cleanth-brooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab3/cleanth-brooks-53657_essence_when-we-try-to-describe-one-person-to-an_2191364.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/person-spoken/#itemlist", "name": "Person Spoken Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language in which we describe them? 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